Monday ... on the road again!

We said sad farewells yesterday to Dennis and Peewee as we packed up the cars and headed out of Gallup.  I feel I leave a bit of my heart here every time we leave and head out on the I-40.  We also left the team teapot for safe keeping rather than bring it home again ... it has travelled back and forth every time we've been on mission and I reckon it may be the best travelled teapot of all time!  However we realised it might be a good idea to keep it in Gallup for the next mission - God willing.

We headed straight down to Sun Valley, Arizona where we were welcomed by the Native American Christian Academy formerly known as Sun Valley Indian School.  We did drama and testimony and led the kids in some songs - it was a fun time and we were able to leave gifts of books, craft items and some money towards this fantastic Christian school.  They hosted us for lunch and we sat with the children whilst we ate. We were just sad that we couldn't have spent longer there but the distance from Gallup meant that our only chance was to visit en route.

On the road again we headed up to the south rim of the Grand Canyon - we couldn't miss the opportunity as it is only one hour from the I-40.  We managed to get to the best spot by sunset.  It was awesome. 

We stopped for a Wendy's meal on our way back to our overnight stop (please keep us in your prayers as one member of the team was sick on the journey and several others have sore throats, bad headaches, sinus issues etc).  We have had an incredibly busy schedule, most days the temperature is up around 100 degrees and we have had to handle high altitude.

Our overnight stop has been Williams, Arizona and today we drive on over the Las Vegas preparing to fly back tomorrow - we will be back in the UK on Thursday morning.  We are all tired but very, very satisfied that the mission has been a success in many, many ways beyond we could have all dreamed and doors are opening so wide here.  The Journey magazine in Gallup want to run an article on us when we are in town again and we hit the Gallup Sun newspaper on Sunday!

Thank you for your interest and your support, comments on the blog and Facebook - we are always encouraged when we here from home and could not do this without you.  I will post some photos up on a separate blog.